If you are interested to follow the seminar online, please contact Jarkko Suhonen (jarkko.suhonen(at)uef.fi).

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Components of the programme

The IMPDET-LE program is built upon three main pedagogical components: (1) supervision; (2) course work; (3) online research seminar.

Supervision

The doctoral students in the IMPDET-LE programme have 1-3 supervisors. One of the supervisors needs to be a professor, assistant professor, or a person holding equivalent qualification in UEF. Supervisors outside of the University of Eastern Finland must be approved by the student’s respective Faculty. A team of supervisors are collectively responsible for:

Assisting and monitoring the progress of the studies together with the IMPDET-LE co-ordinator;

Co-authoring a set of research articles related to students doctoral research work, as well as coaching the writign processs; and

Mentoring students through an investigation of the student's own scientific research work that will result in a doctoral dissertation.

Course work

Each doctoral student in the IMPDET-LE programm needs to complete individually agreed course work during the doctoral studies. The content and amount of course work defined in the personal post graduate study plan may vary depending on several factors:

The student’s previous academic and professional experience;

The student’s research interests; and

The requirements of the Faculty to which the student is applying

The credits for the course work can be earned several ways:

1. Courses from Computer Science, Education or related fields. The IMPDET-LE students can complete at least 2-3 online courses per study year, see the IMPDET-LE courses-page. In addition, there are several suitable courses available in campus. Also, students can choose elective courses outside of their respective departments, even some cases outside of UEF. For instance, UniPID virtual studies might be relevant for some of the IMPDET-LE students, especially those who are dealing with developmental issues.

2. Transferable skills studies offered by the Graduate School of University of Eastern Finland. The transferable skill studies are designed to help postgraduate students to develop their general research skills, like communication, information retrieval and research ethics etc. Most of the transferable skills studies are avaiable only in Campus. In some cases, the students are able to study transferable skills studies by completing openly availabe online course (for example, MOOCS).

3. Scholarly tasks and learning activities. Doctoral students are able to complete part of their course work via individually agreed scholarly tasks and learning activities, such as presenting a paper in a scientific conference, completing a project, creating online course materials, writing an essay, completing a literature review, etc. The content and scope of the independent study work need to be negotiated with the IMPDET-LE staff and/or the supervisor.

Online research seminars

The edTech research group at the School of Computing organises approximately once per month online research seminars. The research seminars provide IMPDET-LE students an opportunity to present their work, and receive constructive and supportive feedback from senior researchers and peer students. The seminar presentations can be given and followed online via the Adobe Connect system, Skype or other online means.